cron environment

[kclark at cabletron.com (Kevin D. Clark)]

dmoylan at ibm.net writes:

> in executing scripts called under crontab, my local environment
> variables are not recognized.  is there some simple way to make
> this happen?

Assuming you're trying to start a shell script via cron, add something
like this:

     . $HOME/.profile
     
to the top of your shell script.  If you're not starting a shell
script, create a shell script wrapper around  your intended program
and perform this action in that.

cron is *famous* for starting programs with a dearth of environment
variables...

--kevin
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